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Wikileaks pledge drive hobbled by PayPal suspension
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| Wikileaks is now able to accept PayPal
| donations again.
|
| PayPal's spokeswoman said it had lifted the
| suspension on Saturday, suggesting it had
| been triggered by anti-money laundering
| systems.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/wikileaks_paypal/
Australia leaves the internet
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| It's Australia Day tomorrow, and the
| country's subjects are using it to mark a
| week of protests against government plans
| for compulsory internet censorship.
|
| www.internetblackout.com.au/ is calling for
| opponents of the government's plans to black
| out their profile picture on social
| networking sites, black out their websites,
| write to their MP and join a real world
| protest too.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/25/australia_censorsip/
The real stake in 'free flow of information'
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| Unlike advanced Western countries, Chinese
| society is still vulnerable to the effect of
| multifarious information flowing in,
| especially when it is for creating disorder.
|
| Western countries have long indoctrinated
| non-Western nations on the issue of freedom
| of speech. It is an aggressive political and
| diplomatic strategy, rather than a desire
| for moral values, that has led them to do
| so.
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http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/editorial/2010-01/500324.html
Chinese Human Rights Sites Hit by DDoS Attack
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| Five Web sites run by Chinese human rights
| activists were attacked by hackers over the
| weekend, as a separate row continued between
| Google and China over political
| cyberattacks.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187597/chinese_human_rights_sites_hit_by_ddos_attack.html
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google
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| Google made headlines when it went public
| with the fact that Chinese hackers had
| penetrated some of its services, such as
| Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at
| intelligence gathering. The news here isn't
| that Chinese hackers engage in these
| activities or that their attempts are
| technically sophisticated -- we knew that
| already -- it's that the U.S. government
| inadvertently aided the hackers.
|
| In order to comply with government search
| warrants on user data, Google created a
| backdoor access system into Gmail accounts.
| This feature is what the Chinese hackers
| exploited to gain access.
|
| Google's system isn't unique. Democratic governments
| around the world -- in Sweden, Canada and the UK, for
| example -- are rushing to pass laws giving their police
| new powers of Internet surveillance, in many cases
| requiring communications system providers to redesign
| products and services they sell.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html
China counterattacks US in Google hacking row
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| According to the Associated Press this
| morning, a spokesman for China's Ministry of
| Industry claimed that, not only did the
| Chinese government have nothing to do with
| the attacks, but its anti-hacking policy was
| transparent and consistent. "Any accusation
| that the Chinese government participated in
| cyber attacks, either in an explicit or
| indirect way, is groundless and aims to
| discredit China," he said.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1588408/china-counterattacks-us-google-hacking-row
China rejects claims of cyber attacks on Google
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| China has denied any state involvement in
| alleged cyber attacks on Google and accused
| the US of double standards.
|
| A Chinese industry ministry spokesman told
| the state-run Xinhua news agency that claims
| that Beijing was behind recent cyber attacks
| were "groundless".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8478005.stm
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